Pac Rim 2008 Info
Noted Speaker Series: Hill M. Walker, Ph.D.
Patricia Wood | Brenda Smith Myles | Manulani Aluli Meyer | Janet Cole | Jacquelyn Brand | Caroline Casey | Patricia A. Morrissey | Edward J. Kame‘enui
Monday April 14th, 2008: 9:00 am - 10:00 am in the Niihau Room on the topic of Teach to Reach All Learners
“Evidence-Based Interventions for the Prevention of Violence and Destructive Outcomes within School Settings”
This presentation will focus on issues associated with selecting, adopting and implementing evidence-based interventions in school settings to address disruptive and aggressive behavior disorders. Strategies for the prevention of violent and destructive forms of behavior at school through early intervention using proven and promising approaches will be highlighted. Examples of universal, selected and indicated intervention approaches will be described that have proven effective in achieving this goal. Recommended resource materials for practitioners’ use in preventing and treating school-related behavior disorders will be provided as part of the presentation.
Biography
Hill M. Walker is a Professor of Special Education, Co-Director of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, and Director of the Center on Human Development in the College of Education at the University of Oregon.
Dr. Walker has a long-standing interest in behavioral assessment and in the development of effective intervention procedures for use in school settings with a range of behavior disorders. He has been engaged in applied research during his entire career, dating from 1966.
Dr. Walker is the co-author, along with Herbert Severson, of Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD) (Sopris West, 1990); author of The Acting Out Child: Coping With Classroom Disruption (2nd edition, Sopris West, 1995); co-author, along with Phillip Strain and Michael Guralnick, of Children’s Social Behavior: Development, Assessment and Modification (Academic Press, 1986); and co-author, along with Geoffrey Colvin and Elizabeth Ramsey, of Antisocial Behavior in School: Strategies and Best Practices (Brooks/Cole, 1995).
He is the author, along with Michael Epstein, of Making Schools Safer and Violence Free: Critical Issues, Solutions, and Recommended Practices (PRO-ED, 2000), and Interventions for Academic and Behavior Problems II, with Mark Shinn and Gary Stoner, published in March, 2002 by NASP.
